I haven't read them. The point is, however, irrelevant. It's a matter of taste. Yours differs from other people - what a shock. My point - and it astounds me that I have to clarify this - is that just because you don't like it doesn't mean that people who do "only looked at the pictures". Clearly, they see something in it that you don't. I simply find it irritating when someone treats matters of taste as though theirs were the only valid opinion.

If you haven't read it, then you have no place in the conversation. With the exception of the one remaining issue of the Comedian, I have read it. [No, I didn't pay for it] Not even taking into account the outright contradictions of Moore's original work, the writing on BW is very poor. I could go into excruciating detail as to why, but I'm sure the carefree DC enablers like you don't want to hear it.

First off, Before Watchmen wasn't even close to "pretty good." Second, I used to spend over $100 a month on comics before BW started. Now, I'm down to about $10 a month. So the argument could be made that the world did indeed end.

I enjoy when people talk about (especially in my Store) how much they don't spend on comics. They are on the same level as the people that come in and say, loudly, "They STILL make Magic cards?!?". Yes, yes they do. Just because YOU stopped playing WotC didn't close up shop. If you don't like comics anymore then go do something else and shut up about it already.

Also, BW was pretty good. Certainly it wasn't bad enough to make one cancel all of their unrelated comic purchases.

You think way deeper about this than I do. If I didn't like Animal Man or Swamp Thing I wouldn't stop buying Batman. Maybe I'm the crazy one but I just buy the books I like and don't buy the books I don't like.

Comics don't like creators anymore, either (but then they only really did for a brief period in the 1980s). When the day inevitably comes that we hear the sad money/health stories of the hacks and whores who worked on BW, I'm going to find it a little more difficult to shed a tear.

For me, the quality of "Before Watchmen" is irrelevant. Their very existence is bad. They represent DC's bad faith in upholding their contract with Alan Moore. No amount of quality can change the fact that DC found a way to screw over the writer who gave them one of their most profitable books.

Heat hear. They could be the worse or best comics ever, and neither would make a difference, they should not have been made. Period. And yes, world didn't end. But plenty of people stopped buying DC comics and a few people stopped working for them.

You'd have to be a total clown to consider Before Watchmen a worthwhile project on any level. Not even the talent involved gave enough of a shit to do any research whether it was (re)reading the original or exploring any of the real world nods and inspirations involved. And that's not even going into how vile and exploitative most of the stories or character explorations were. Everyone loves a rapist, I guess.

Allow me to fill in the blank for you. There's a difference between not liking a product that's being put out and having a basic grasp on the concept of showing respect for comics creators, the comics industry and the comics artform. It's legitimately troubling when the people in charge of one of the largest comics publishing houses doesn't have that basic grasp.

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